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The relationships between literature and reality are the target of constant reflections and preoccupations, from authors and from criticists. The author and environmentalist Homero Aridjis is no exception to this rule: however, he managed to make his own and original way thanks to a specific aesthetic, what I call reversed aesthetics. It consists of using nonrealistic tools (grotesque and neobaroque, amongst others) to elaborate a representation of reality which brings a change to the imagination of the reader. The metaphor of “subverted Eden” refers to a world where the preservation of the environment, animal species, cultural diversity and collective memory is at the same time a preoccupation and a utopia. These questions are reflected in author’s literary work in continuous construction of a destruction space: the reversed reading of some creation narratives (Biblical, Aztec, Greco-Roman) leads to a catastrophic representation of time and space and to a dilution of the subjectivity. This doctoral thesis analyses Homero Aridjis’ aesthetics in its twofold dimension, inversion and subversion.